Car construction.



G. F. PREDE & C; T. WESTLAKE.

CAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1911.

Patented Dec. 3, 1912.

FIG- I l/v VEN roRs MTNESSES UNITED SYPAWENT OF -E.

TO DOUBLE BODY BOLS'IER NZEW JERSEY.

To all-whom'itmay concern:

Be it and CHARLES T. WESTLAKE, citizens'of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented. a certain new and useful Improvement in Car Construction, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, such as will enable others skilled 'in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,-in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of a portion of a combined cast metal platform and double body bolster of the type employed in.con-

nection with the under frames of sleeping carsand' illustrating our improved construction in. Connection therewith. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail-elevation of the parts looking in the direction indicated by the arrow 2 Fig. 1. Fig. 3' is an enlarged detail section taken approximately on the line 3 -3 of under frames.

In passenger car construction of the pres ent types, it isto a large-extent the practice to utilize combined cast steel platforms and double body bolsters, and it is the object of our invention to provide simple means for attachingthe vestibule posts and end wall posts to the end sills and bufiing sills of the platform and to unite the posts and sills insuch a manner as to provide a very strong rigid construction particularly adapted to withstand end shocks and buffing strains to which the end walls and vestibule walls are subjected during service.

To the above purposes our invention consists in certain novel-features of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring by numerals to the accompany.

ing drawings, 10 designates the main body of the combined platform and double body bolster, 11 the end sill thereof, 12 the cast metal frame of the platform and'13 the hollow. bufling sill, all of which parts are of ordinary construction.

The end portions of the buffing sill 13 are out cons'rnucrronl Specification of Letters Patent.

known that we, CHARLEs'F. Fnnnn' :oHARnias r-sFREDE'ANn CHARLES 'r. WESTLAKE, OF ST. Louis, m ssonntlnssmnons;

COMPANY, on ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, a, conronarronor I,

I Application filed July 3, 1911. Serial No. 636,762. 1

provided with open topped pockets 14, and positioned therein are t-he lower ends of ably I shaped in cross sect-ion. The rear flanges of the posts 15 fit directly against -vestibule posts 15, which latter are preferand passing through said flanges and wall 5 are rivets 16. v The front portions of the posts 15 are rigidly fixed to the front vertical wall ofthe bufling sill by means of lives-16, and in order to insure a snug and perfect fit between the lower ends of the posts 15 and the buffingfsill shims or lin'ersin the form of metal plates 17 are inserted between the posts 15 and the front walls of the sill 13 before the rivets 16 are applied, thus the bottoms of the posts 15 rest directly upon the horlzontal bottom plate of the buttingsill, and the-front and rear faces of the lower ends of said post-s bear against the front and rear vertical walls of said bufling sill thereby providing a very strong, substantial and rigid construction.

The end wall posts 18 of the car body are substantially Z-shaped in cross section, and

the lower endsof said posts rest, upon anoutwardly projecting horizontal flange of The lower ends of these the end sill 11. end posts are rigidly fixedto the end sill 11 by means of horizontally disposed rivets 20,"

passing through the vertical flange of the end sill and through the portions of the posts which bear against said vertical flange, and said posts are further secured in position by means of angle clips 21, which are riveted to the horizontal flange of the end sill, and to the'central portions 'or webs of the Z-shaped posts 18.

It will be noted that in our construction.

lower ends of the vestibule posts; and the buffing sill and all shocks and strains imparted during service to the vestibule posts are transmitted directly to the buffing sill.

By. imposing one or more plates 17 between the lower end of the vestibule post and the front wall of the'bufiing sill a perfect fit is insured between the post and sill, thus taking care of any variation in size in the width of the post or of the width of the opening ofpocket 14E. 7

Our improved construction is comparatively simple, is particularly adapted for all types of cars utilizing combined cast steel platforms and double body bolsters,and provides a very strong and rigid construction between the vestibule posts and end posts,

and the end and bulling sills of the combined platform and double body-bolster. I

It will be readily understood that minor changes in the form and construction of our'ilnproved device may be made and sub stituted for those herein shown and de scribed without departing from the spirit,

of our invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claims.

lVe claim:

1. In car, construction the combination with a combined platform and double body bolster, of "a bufiing sill integral with the platform in which buffing sill are formed openings, vestibule posts having their lower ends seated in said openings, means for rigidly fixing the lower ends of the posts to the bufiing sill, a horizontally disposed flange projecting outwardly from the end sill of the double body bolster, and car end frame posts, the lower ends of--, which are supported by and fixed to said flange. 4

2. In car constructioma double bodybolster, an end sill integral therewith, a horizontally disposed bottom flange projecting outwardly from said end sill, a hollow buifer beam havthe said end sill, and a hollow butting sill integral with the platformframe, the-top plate of which bufling sill is provided with openingsadapted to receive the'lower ends of the vestibule posts.

4. In car construction a unitary cast metal structure comprising a combined double body bolster, an end sill provided with an end post supporting flange, a skeleton plat form frame. and a butter beam at the outer end'of said platform frame, which buffer beam lS'PI'OXldQCl with openings near its ends adapted to receive the lower portions of vestibule posts.

5. In car construction, a double body bolster having an'end sill, a horizontally disposed flange projecting outwardly from said end sill for supporting. the car end ,frame posts, a platform extending outwardly from the end sill of the double body bolster, a.

hollow butter beam carried by the outer end of the platform. which buffer beam is pro- I wardly from the end sill of the double body bolster, a hollow bufier beam carried by the outer end of the platform, which buffer beam is provided in its top plate with openings adapted to receive the lower ends of the vestibule posts, and means for fixing the lower ends of the car body end posts to the end sill of the double'body bolster and for fixing the lower ends of the vestibule posts to the buffer beain.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signaturesin the presence of two witnesses, this 24th dayof June, 1911.

CHARLES F. FREDE. CHARLES T. WESTLAKE. Witnesses:

HAL C. BELLVILLF, O. T. Lnorono. V 

